Reflecting on my life-long academic journey, spanning five different universities, five different technical areas, three masters and one PhD degrees, I can easily say that the three areas that I utilized most have been “Mathematics”, “Sports-especially running” and “Foreign Languages”. Mathematics is essential to our everyday lives in the sense that automated mathematical modelling and simulation of dynamical systems is essential to the real-time control of all systems (Melin & Castillo, 1998b). ...